Scientific Discourse Meeting, December 19, 2011

Agenda:

1: Creating processing workflows and annotations in U-Compare and Argo

Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is a framework
that addresses interoperability of processing components coming from
different sources by defining common data structures and interfaces. We
present NaCTeM's U-Compare and Argo, systems that support the UIMA
framework and provide easy-to-use graphical user interfaces to combine
various UIMA-based components.

U-Compare is an integrated TM/NLP processing system which supports
user-friendly, drag-and-drop processing workflow creation, as well as
evaluation, statistics and visualization of produced annotations.
U-Compare also facilitates component comparison capabilities, useful to
automatically select the best processing setup. Currently, U-Compare
comes with about 50 pre-loaded, ready-to-use components.

Argo complements U-Compare by providing a web-based interface and remote
processing, making the framework more accessible to the non-technical
user. One of the key functionalities of Argo is its ability to
seamlessly incorporate user-interactive components, such as manual
annotation editors, into otherwise completely automatic pipelines.